Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motive's outlook, since it was never very parochial to begin with. In its 25 years of publication, motive has consistently taken the stand that its college readers were adults and has given them adult, avant-garde fare. Never preachy in tone, the magazine has nonetheless assumed that religion is relevant and has tried to apply a critical Christian intelligence to the interests of modern youth, from biochemistry to the Beatles...
...even its mistakes suggest the variety and vitality of Methodism, and plenty of its older but doubtful readers concede that the magazine appeals to the young in a unique and valuable way. Says Bishop Donald Tippett of San Francisco, "Motive speaks to thoughtful students in a language that makes religion and the church relevant. They will make our best leaders, and frankly, we'd lose them if we had to depend on most of the other church publications...
Many shadow school courses concentrate on the kind of thing that is likely to crop up in afterhours student talk, such as psychedelic drugs. Others, however, attempt to fill a genuine gap in the official university curriculum. At Cornell, where there is no religion department, undergraduates plan to offer a class in the "Death of God Theology," and Moslem students will teach Islamic culture. One Cornell professor has even signed up for a student-taught course in jazz-something unavailable at the university's own music school. At Dartmouth a fraternity is organizing a shadow school class...
...Sydow) is a prune-faced New England parson insuperably identified with deity. Blankly unable to perceive that the islanders are more Christian than the Christians, this religious imperialist with ruthless righteousness throws down their god of love and raises up in its stead a god of wrath. With their religion in ruins, the Hawaiians lie open to all the blessings of civilization: whisky, syphilis and economic exploitation. By film's end the native nation in only 50 years has withered from 400,000 to less than 150,000 souls, and the parson is forced to assume the white...
...Catholic convert who was easily able to induce her young lover to accept the old faith. Later, when Rousseau wanted to resume the hereditary rights of a citizen of Geneva, he had to forswear his conversion. The road to and from Rome was equally painless; he was his own religion...